action of the insert the corridors of many kids used for sending supplies to the besieged city by rail. operation in january from the storm got underway the soviet army pushed the enemy back on hundred kilometers from leningrad. to see it as this flood has exploded misjudging since nine hundred a siege that cost hundreds of thousands of civilian lives was a river. for those people the tram became a symbolic time machine. during the journey they remembered the nine hundred days that nearly broke them but made that friendship stronger.

every couple of the stories that shape the week as russia's republicans know to say to move things after thursday's suicide bomb which killed seventeen and injured over one hundred sixty local police there accused of negligence and failing to stop

the bomb but. does commemoration is mark the ninth anniversary of the nine eleven terrorist a time there were clashes to the plans for a mosque near ground zero and defray sing of the koran. a miracle of the toy god pilot safely landed a passenger plane in the forest stuff about communication on the big asian systems failed on route to moscow from russia strongly east. brainstorming for a brighter future minds gather for a global policy forum and jaroslav to discuss a formula for bets of peace and democracy. hello and welcome to the program this is his weekly review of our top story russia's republic of north a set is reeling from the deadliest terror attack on its capital in a decade

a car bomb exploded at the central market of logic of cars and says the morning killing seventeen injuring more than one hundred sixty minute while investigators are examining how local police was top of the car packed with explosives allowed the suicide bomber to pass through leading to the tragedy also. reports. cries louder than sirens but no fear just the time eleven twenty four on the watches of those who perished in the central market in logic of crisis it was an sos day when a suicide bomber drove his car to its end terms he was said to be coming to renew routine check up the car but reluctant to open the trunk but a security guard a muslim big into. sisted. he put the key in the trunk turned it maybe once or twice the key broken his hand i slung big head the man turned around and moved away from the crowded entrance a minute later a powerful explosion shook the area. heard the cries and rushed to the scene.

i saw a lot of cars blown to pieces and a lot of bodies i had no real fear i just felt sorry for the people who died or got injured especially a young mother with a child i saw them just before the explosion a young girl was coming in with a kid a little kid as soon as she got inside the blasts happened. went to the market that day with his entire family it said he was quarreling with his brother bought riding their bike so his grandmother promised to buy him a new one but a moment later they were killed by the blast so. i went inside but they stayed at the entrance suddenly there was an explosion i lost one of my children and my mother my wife and another kid are in hospital there were many people there it was scary no we'll know and his grandmother yes i'm on lie side by side the government's closed the house of the survivor stricken by the loss. this is

a father and his one and a half year old son who died and this is his wife she was injured lags in hands and this is the one to die. candles commemorate the dead in what. people here are mourning their loved ones and have been given blood to help the injured for tania who has arrived in the form of a new born son but before the birth she too had to leave through the tragedy. to the market and the brooch and the powerful explosions went off my ears were right. honestly i didn't understand it was enough to tear or anything like that. people covered. and they ran right to way i was afraid i was. too scared for the last hope to get to be one son that she and i didn't notice that she herself was injured and it was not the piece of metal in her knee that was on

her mind. was afraid there's nothing. to some toys moving when i was with. the one taken care of and baby sleeping beside her that jenna now is occupied will begin a new little one as with logic of course itself she still needs some time to get back to normal life this penetrating logic of cars is far deeper than this shell hole left by the deadly car blast as days parts people slowly start mending their lives for sun like the newborn baby could be a bridge to a new life but for many this horrible attack will be engraved on their hearts forever. are like of. the bombing. has been followed by a string of terror operations in the north caucasus region ten militants have been killed in two separate incidents in another volatile russian republic dagestan

gunmen were besieged in a house in the republic's capital they refused to surrender and opened fire on the police before being killed in a shootout elsewhere two militants were killed in another attack astonied village before being killed a top bloke. i acted as a negotiator. and some experts say the militants in the north caucuses are part of an international terrorist network and dr wendy progress professor of the national defense university in washington and an expert on global terrorism says the bombing in north no different from other suicide attacks anyway in the world this attack suicide attack in the northern caucuses is not just. by local terrorists we've seen this before in history by. al qaida worldwide inside russia in dagestan in chechnya in this part of the caucasus. around the world whatever you have suicide bombers you see also a threat against international democracy and freedom. that was political scientists

docs that were laid for so. we can do more of the nice side of our serie of the deadliest terrorist atrocities in history the nine eleven attacks on new york and the pentagon in which almost three thousand people lost their lives carried out by al qaeda fanatics the less to a backlash in parts of america against islam but says than there's been tens of thousands of converts to the region in the country despite claims the media is fueling sentiment preassure the investigative why. and it's answered by more than a billion muslims all over the world including. a twenty two year old american who was raised christian. my mother. was crying a lot. of thought that i was returning her by changing my religion. almost a decade ago. today our fellowship. our way of life. our very

freedom came under attack in a series of deliberate and deadly terrorist attacks president bush waged a war on terror targeting extremists muslims who were labeled as terrorists you know i was fourteen when september eleventh happened so i didn't really know what was going on if it really was you know people thought it was so i believe just like everybody else but as villains got older she decided to find out for herself and her investigation led her to the mistah office center a mosque just outside of washington d.c. that has become a haven for many americans like billings who have found a new poll found that almost forty percent of americans believe that muslims should carry identification card despite that twenty thousand americans every year decide to convert to islam be a convert say they don't regret their decision at all around the world since nine eleven and muslims have battled bands of their religious clothing profiling in

airports and discrimination in their everyday lives average one of the class to learn more about karl dodge also decided to become a muslim one of the big jokes that i've always made is before i actually sat down the class and opened my career on everything i knew about islam i had learned from c.n.n. and when it comes to the mainstream media the depiction of converts can be somewhat extreme that pakistani officials have arrested adam gadahn this is the american born spokesman for al qaida fox first there was john walker lindh the californian who converted joined the taliban and then did up fighting with them in afghanistan and then more recently it was jihad jane the blond haired blue eyed convert who allegedly recruited people to wage violent jihad and for many american muslims like dodge and billings the portrayal of converts is disturbing if those upset me a little bit because there's a lot of preconceptions people have been until i actually took the time to open a koran and see what was written you know that was my only impression of islam as

a. what i had seen on t.v. and in the united states they say a culture of islamophobia just doesn't make sense it's a rights of proper religion that's what this country was founded on no matter what unfolds around her billing says she's proud to be a muslim if no one in the world wants to talk to me and my friend i still don't regret the happiness that might not make sense to those around her a little over three there are teen annandale virginia. and that's not just been a day of sorrowful remembrance on the ninth anniversary of the nine eleven a time they have been protests to with thousands demonstrating over the building a mosque near ground zero a man is retired pages from the koran and said i want to find you at the site of the world trade center and this follows a threat from a pastor in florida to burn islam's holy book on the nine eleven anniversary plan has not been carried out it's outraged the muslim world a strong rebuke from president obama and i've got to stone two protesters died and

four were injured in a tense just storm a local government office and three days of demonstrations against threats to burn the koran and muslim american actually. says that since nine eleven islam has been misunderstood in the u.s. . really what this shows in the bull's disturbing part about this debate is it's become us against them that is the most troubling aspect because we are all americans we're signing collective guilt on the one billion muslims the nineteen militants that basically defiled and practiced a perverted version of islam for a political agenda and to assign blame all muslims is completely incorrect and inaccurate but i think the great majority hear this one because they don't understand it. the end of three of the nine eleven attack and russia's republic of

north to say here once again bring international terrorism into focus and whether you can be stopped and you can have your said how website home we want to hear your views and today we're asking what's the best way to eradicate international terrorism by now the majority of voters believe that ensuring high living standards is the way to go while twenty seven percent support a reversal of globalization another fifteen percent of you as a whole the pretty radical view supporting the banning of all religions to get rid of fanatics thirteen percent of you mystic and say there is no way to prevent the problem and hence why both are trying and only a minority of eight percent rely on strengthening security forces so please have your say on this and many other topics at r.t. dot com. this week so prime ministers and presidents along with latex and academics and come together in the russian city of yaroslavl played host to the global policy forum

a brainstorming session talking some of the toughest questions of our time how to make a democracy work and how to make the world a safer place because he has been following it. young what you are in fact if solver and democracy as it turns out is different things to different states the title this year is for many years sloppy standards democracy and efficiency made it sound a little rain even for the kremlin is tough and. it gave some of them the chance to hit the president. to go to the satellites and i strongly disagree with those who say there's no democracy in russia and that there's authoritarian tendencies here it's not true that russia is a democracy beyond any doubt it's young it's immature it's still not perfect and experience but it's a democracy nonetheless there's a way to go but we're ready to work on it in some countries democracy is being imposed but it doesn't work that way video we've seen many examples of that but when you talk of democracy in russia is

a moot point if the country doesn't who organize itself the key message the president in his speech another major topic was security russia's been promoting a new vision for european security architecture that it says is vital to avoiding military conflicts similar to that in the south caucasus in two thousand and eight . that what we need to create an institution that will bring together nato and non nato members and other structures where u.s. counterpart president barack obama never avoids discussing this issue he does not say that is harmful or unnecessary but i would suggest that among our american partners a certain jealousy exists with regard to this idea however it is necessary to rise over this josee and try to look true the. without the creation of the system our world will not be able to survive we can help each other here is one of the first posts of course of the idea of the new european security treaty was italian premier

corny but before he could make his point he had to find his words i like to see that i was not very well informed about the topics to be discussed at this forum the section of my administration which has prepared the speech has prepared the room that's why i'm passing the stacks to the moderator of this portion of the plenary meeting this presentation doesn't correspond to the discussion here many that evening criticize the us corny for taking more stage time than the host but mitchum it that it didn't seem to mind helen prime minister before i see a more definite despised but of course a formal session of them over to the uk for two days this stadium turned into a lib or a tree where some of the world's best minds attempted to find a formula balancing three elements democracy modernization and officials did they come up with a single formula of course they didn't but what they agreed upon is no matter what the proportion if a country wants to move forward it needs all three elements in the mix excluding

the r t from. so one of the biggest issues discussed before and was russia's proposal for a new european security framework and we talked about it with professor gray cohan from new york university and he says such a restructuring will take years of discussion but it's vital that talks go on. i don't think that there has been a resolution about the proposal for the new european security security treaty but i do think that there is now a relationship of mutual respect between president medvedev and president obama and between the two countries and that includes the other european countries that would have to be partners to any sort of agreement so in my view the discussion has to continue possibly for years before there is a resolution the disaster would be if any country breaks off the discussion and refuses to keep this process moving forward because we do need to reach an agreement and a new framework. professor craig calhoun from new york university that speaking at

the global policy forum. two pilots are being held as heroes for safely landing that passenger plane with eighty one on board in a forest in russia after a massive systems malfunction on board all passengers survive unheard of the plane's navigation and communications systems failed in midair over the country's northwest bottom half the story. the heroes of the tiger these are the men the managed to land a crippled jetliner in the middle of the forest not injuries so that the passengers thankful to be in line were seated in a pool so we landed in the nearest street and ended up as a emergency crews arrived to try to wait everything was the next thing that understood this time the fleet was not for the professionalism of through we would not be standing here. the tupolev one five four was flying at ten thousand meters

on its way to moscow from russia's far east and it was a massive electrical failure plane lost into matter of navigation and communication its fuel supply wing flaps were crippled meaning i had to run quickly and it fired the normal speeds even the lights in the cabin and when turn by sight or load. the pilots found abandoned their strip in the depths of the forest and managed to land in a good attempt. by plane was designed to land on a concrete airstrip there first we chose a restaurant in decided to land there but during the maneuver by miracle we caught a glimpse of a concrete strip and all the shorter it would be much safer going to get them despite overshooting and plowing through two hundred metres of woodland before stopping all eighty one people on board were evacuated to safety rather milledge can is a former pilot and actually trained the heroes in question he says he's very proud of his form across a chance to grow up in the clothes they couldn't even tell their how to cheat or

where they were he only had enough fuel for ten minutes of flight in managing to land that plane he practically did the impossible as with the plane itself investigators are poring over interviews with the crew and witnesses black box recordings and evidence at the site that question what caused such a massive electrical failure providing that w one fifty four is not quite the brand your aircraft and i'm sure that that craft was manufactured probably at least twenty years ago by you with more. i believe there is a chance that the gui point was just more of. a russell airlines which owns the plane says it wasn't aware of any issues before takeoff but added it would never fly again investigators are focusing on mechanical failure rather than pilot error or weather conditions but everyone is expecting the playlets to receive medals they're achieved. in time the technical details of this plane's malfunction will

join all of the others in aviation history but one thing will always stand out courage and resourcefulness of the two men who brought it safely to tomas and ozzy osbourne. a former u.s. soldier has found himself at the center of a scandal after posting a controversial video heating sergeant down some. charged after planting grenades in the cause of iraq is that church points than filming the reaction of drivers it claims it was all supposed to be a prank but as are reports the iraqis fails to see the funny side. manning a checkpoint or day musket alling which is perhaps why sergeant dunson and his partner admit they passed the time playing jokes on unsuspecting drivers in the future posting dunson describes how they planted a grenade in the iraqi man's car a few seconds of confusion all's explained and the perplexed but very relieved driver is sent on his way. but we had

a you know caught. our our it was that one of those being were you know what happened. on a guy like that on but for most iraqis this is not fun and life here is very far from being a joke. i think it's only for them to laugh for us it's not funny but very scary. just we're used to par balances you know uses the searches happening every day but if someone did this to me i would be so scared. as would most people in a country where a checkpoint often the difference between night and day it's not uncommon to have your car take at least a dozen times a day if you're found to have illegal weapons what you will see the city of grenades you'll be arrested on the stuff and the terrorism. and some american military personnel are not seeing the funny side of sergeant dunces antics i would not tolerate that in my organization. i don't think that's conducive to gaining.

you know into the partnership with with the federal police or certainly and trusting their confidence in us or the people for that matter and trusting the. trusting in the federal police but i want to a local t.v. stations you know picked up on the idea. that it takes well known local celebrities to iraqi checkpoints and plays pranks on them in much the same way as dunson and his colleagues produce a national will by a says it's a way to lighten the situation. in libya we're not making fun of the iraqi forces they're very brave and frightened but we wanted to present them and i mean you can define weight on that we also want to present weapons is something people can laugh about even if. there's mixed reaction to the iraqi shows but still iraqis making fun of iraqis. different according to most people two americans get on and on the

act and with people still being killed in iraq every day it was a constant reminder that terrorism is no laughing matter. r.t. . two years ago this week the u.s. government pledged its financial support for the mortgage giants fannie mae and freddie mac. the companies that are seen as major contributors demarcus national debt and to find out whether people think the bailout was worth it though we harvest also known as the president hit the streets of new york. it's been two years since mortgage finance giants fannie mae and freddie mac. received billions of dollars from the u.s. government they continue to report losses and received on how do you feel about taxpayer dollars continuing to support them this week let's talk about bad they're white collar criminals. we shouldn't continue to give them money then probably no.

no what do we do. we help each other it's hard to say if they've helped. because it's hard to tell whether. what the result would have been if we didn't do anything at all so i think in terms of my business i think that some of the bailouts have been very successful for maintaining business in the in the role of the century the velocity of cash in them in. but i think in the long run wolf we'll find out we have to keep the housing market going i think there is such a low keeping the housing market going if we didn't support them any more it would collapse do you think either be a lot harder a lot more difficult than it might collapse i mean it's struggling hard enough as it is right now so why are people so against it do you think i think there's just a general anger against government and they're taking it out on anybody who they can take it out on some rich company that's ok they have the power capitalism and democracy sort of into this is they use or too much and too much power over the

democratic process is it ever going to change not in my lifetime. but so far into this might as well give them the money save everybody else does it matter that at this point it's aster anyway i mean you know where eighty billion dollar ninety billion with them they made money on of the deal so freddie and fannie trying to get out of it as best as possible the bottom line is the u.s. government is probably going to continue to support fannie mae and freddie mac. whether we like it or not. a manhunt is underway for a famed russian cage fighter who is on the run after breaking out of a psychiatric ward in st petersburg police suspect he may be hiding out in moscow martial arts expert that is laugh that's sick was kicked out of the sport for being too brutal in the ring when i ended up involved with criminals and author nationalists artists arafat has more. the actions of six extreme aggression in the

ring scared both his opponents and the public outside the ring murder threats assault robbery and an alleged psychotic breakdown. placed in high security psychiatric care but during that time he was able to establish links with an extremist political movement the now banned slavic union. jews are enemies for me and now he's on the run after receiving a transfer to a new facility that sick was sent to the drugs and those cells are psychiatric hospital just outside st petersburg those from here that he is state they can see the areas sealed off and there's barbed wire around the perimeter of it certainly not high security his time in psychiatric care was far from the strict rehabilitation that might be expected visits from friends and access to mobile

phones enabled him to strengthen relations with nationalist party members and use a sporting nature righty to gain followers. actively participated in campaigning for us he helped establish contacts with sportsmen and with the organization to support of. the entered yes from of his head of the unit that monitored datsik he tells us that he was no longer considered high risk when he was transferred so what actually happened on the day that he escaped when he wanted for a walk with you turn. nurse he took a whole lot of the washing line and used it to pull out the wire from our staff were cautious about those they just tore through the wall yes he just rips it are serious questions and now being raised as to how this was able to happen in the first place. or failing with the security issues here to enable him to skate most new special guards or any police secure.